Countless Blessings

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

Papa and Mama's top 3 most thankful list (though they could go on and on)!

We dedicate this post in memory of our dear friend Rich who passed away the week before Thanksgiving and whose favorite poet was John Milton. Though our hearts were heavy as we thought of his family and their loss, we celebrated his life as a wonderful father, friend, and English Professor.

Drum roll please!!!

We are excited! Love, Cris, Stephanie, and M and E.

Happy 22-months to ME!

We have had a busy month and know the next 2 months leading up to our birthday are going to be just as busy and fly by way too fast! We were lucky to take 2 trips to the apple orchard. One with Papa and Mama and the other with our cousins Breydin and Leela, and the rest of the family.








We had our 2nd stay in a hotel, but the first one we can really remember. Our favorite attraction in the room was to color and eat snacks at the desk and of course we loved, loved our time in the pool.

We continue to work on potty time and are each other's biggest cheerleaders. One of us has had success with both #1 and #2 (M) while the other does best with #1 (E) and gets really excited when she can help "dump" things into the toilet! It is an exciting learning process all in all and Papa and Mama are very proud of us!

We continue our dance class 1x/week and are improving each time in our ability to learn the actions and follow directions. We also enjoy singing/dancing to these songs outside of dance time and basically enjoy any song which involves hand movements, etc. or playing on the piano. Still no white stuff on the ground yet but likely to happen sooner versus later!
Hugs, ME

Halloween 2010!

Experiencing our first cleaning of the inside of a pumpkin...




We decided to be Cowgirls this year being we continue to love the horses out at Grandpa and Grandma's. We didn't keep our outfits on the entire evening, nor allow Mama to capture a picture of us by our pumpkins, but as you can imagine we had fun! We again had a little get-together at our house and were busy handing out candy to all the trick-or-treaters and enjoying our company!




Enjoying a game of pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern with cousin Breydin...




Showing much more interest in the candy in our hands versus the attempt at a family photo...

Thanks everyone for making our 2nd Halloween a blast! Love, ME